Quotes of: General-knowledge Keyword

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Henry Petroski

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree.

Rajib Lochan Dhibar

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

He who raises a question opens knowledge and he who gives an answer limits knowledge

Respicius Rwehumbiza

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Leland Ryken

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

Harvey Mackay

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

William Hurt

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

Fabiola Gianotti

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

Penn Jillette

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

Randeep Hooda

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

John Calvin

{ } is dead. The brave soldier, the unswerving patriot, the true friend, and the distinguished colonel of the old regiment of which we have the honor to be a remanent, sleeps his last sleep. . The world honors him as the prince of orators in his gene...

Ingersoll: A Biographical Appreciation

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge wh...

Literary Theory: An Introduction

Authority is essential to society, but what we called in "transcendental" authority, with an executive ruler on top, depends on the ruler's understanding of equity. If he hasn't enough of such understanding, authority becomes a repressive legalism. L...

Northrop Frye

Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself.

Hebrew

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

Erik Qualman

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

Ronnie James Dio

Knowledge is power, I said at last. "Let's do it.

The Best of All Possible Worlds

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

The Metaphysics of Morals